Compost Circuit

The compost circuit is a farm to table to farm loop. Jeremy rises each morning at 5:30. After driving Growing Power’s staff gardeners to their green projects at Altgeld Gardens and Cabrini Green, he goes on his daily compost circuit, which is composed of nearly a dozen restaurants in the downtown area which buy Growing Power’s produce, then save their kitchen scraps for Jeremy. The compost will break down for nine months, then be added to the soil of a Growing Power garden next spring as the cycle repeats.

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